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Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

and having brought the fatted calf, kill <FI>it<Fi> , and having eaten, we may be merry, — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

`Happy those hungering now--because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now--because ye shall laugh.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: — read the full passage →

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? — read the full passage →

And Peter and John were going up at the same time to the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth <FI>hour<Fi> , — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.' — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

have we not authority a sister--a wife--to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?